Effective Date: April 17, 2018
Last Update: November 25, 2020
Jeremy Lamberth (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the website www.jerrysguitarbar.com (the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data when you use our service, and the choices you can make about that data.
We use your data both to provide the service and to improve it. By using the service, you’re agreeing to the collection and use of your information in line with this policy. We’ll set out here exactly what information we collect and how we use it.
- Definitions
- Information, collections and use
- Use of data
- Retention of data
- International Data Transfer
- Disclosure of data
- Security of data
- Your rights
- Service providers
- Links to other sites
- Children’s privacy
- Changes to this privacy policy
- Contact us
Definitions
Personal Data
Personal data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data.
Usage Data
Usage data is data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service (for example what product you ordered), or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a user’s device.
Data Controller
Data Controller means a person who determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which, personal data are processed.
For Jerry’s Guitar Bar, the Data Controller is the owner, Jeremy Lamberth.
Data Processor (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person outside Jerry’s Guitar Bar who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. Jerry’s Guitar Bar has four outside data processors. SiteGround hosts our website; SendInBlue sends our newsletter and Paypal and Stipe process payments for us.
You can view their Privacy Policies here:
Data Subject
Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data (anyone whose data is held by Jerry’s Guitar Bar).
User
The User is the individual using our service. The User and the Data Subject for the purposes of Jerry’s Guitar Bar are the same.
Information, collection and use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.
Personal Data
While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain information that would identify you, or allow contact with you (“Personal Data”).
The personal information we always receive and store is:
- Email address
- First and last name
- Cookie and usage data (this is data on how you used the website)
- Your country (we are required to record this in order to accurately submit our VAT returns)
The personal information we sometimes receive and store is:
- Shipping address
- IP address
Please note that, even if we receive it, we do nothing with your shipping address or IP address.
If you consent to it, we will use your email address to contact you with a newsletter that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving this communication from us by following the unsubscribe link in any newsletter we send.
The lawful basis under which we use the personal data we collect is given the legal name of “legitimate interest”. It is essential for us to have certain information – email address, name, country for example – in order to process the transaction that you have initiated. In other words, if you buy a product, we must know where to send it.
Usage Data
We may also collect information about how the service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This usage data may include information such as:
- your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address)
- browser type
- browser version
- the pages of our service that you visit
- the time and date of your visit
- the time spent on those pages
- unique device identifiers (meaning what kind of device you are using to visit our site)
Tracking and Cookies Data
We use cookies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from our website and stored on your device.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
Examples of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. Session cookies enable us to keep track of your movement from page to page without asking you to keep repeating information you have already supplied (for example, what’s in your shopping cart). These cookies are not stored after you leave the site.
- Preference Cookies. We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and settings.
Examples of cookies we do not use:
- Third Party Cookies. We don’t allow any third parties that are not required for the transaction to install cookies.
You can read more about how we use cookies in our Cookie Policy.
Search Engine Data
Any search terms that you enter into the Jerry’s Guitar Bar Site Search are anonymously logged. This information cannot be used to identify specific individuals, and is only used for helping us improve our website and search functionality. No user-specific data is collected by either Jerry’s Guitar Bar or any third party.
This information is stored on a secure dedicated server.
Use of data
Purposes
Jerry’s Guitar Bar uses the collected data for these purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service
- To notify you about changes to our service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer support (for example if you lose a previous purchase, we have the data confirming that purchase and can resend it to you)
- To gather analysis to help us improve our service
- To monitor the usage of our service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
- To provide you with a newsletter about about new lessons similar to those you have purchased before, unless you have unsubscribed from receiving such information.
WordPress
We use a third party service, WordPress.org, to publish our products.
We use a standard WordPress service to collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the site, for example the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help us improve it. This data doesn’t identify you as an individual.
If you post a comment on Jerry’s Guitar Bar, you have the option to include your name and email address or to post anonymously. If you include your name and email address, we only use this for the purpose of replying to your specific comment.
To review Wordpress’s Privacy Policy, please visit this page: Wordpress Privacy Policy
Retention of data
Jerry’s Guitar Bar will retain your personal data for an indefinite period. This is on order to have a full record of your purchases should you ever need them re-sent.
We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and assist you with queries relating to previous purchases.
Jerry’s Guitar Bar will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except where this data is used to strengthen security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain it.
International Data Transfer
Jerry’s Guitar Bar processes your data in servers located in the European Union.
Your consent to this privacy policy, (implied by using Jerry’s Guitar Bar), represents your agreement to this.
Jerry’s Guitar Bar takes all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Data
Disclosure For Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Jerry’s Guitar Bar may be required by law to disclose your personal data. If presented with a valid request by a public authority (e.g., a court or a government agency), we will comply with the request.
Legal Requirements
Jerry’s Guitar Bar may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- comply with a legal obligation
- protect and defend the rights or property of Jerry’s Guitar Bar
- prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing with regard to usage of the service
- protect the personal safety of users of the service, or of the general public
- protect against legal liability
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but unfortunately no method of transmission or storage over the internet is 100% secure. We take every reasonable care, using commercially acceptable means, to protect your personal data.
Your Rights
Jerry’s Guitar Bar aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your personal data
You may contact us at any time to be informed about what personal data we hold about you. You may advise us to amend or delete any part of this information, or require us to remove all personal data we hold with respect to you from our systems. We will comply with this request, but please note that we would then be unable to fulfil any request relating to past purchases or transactions between us and you, as we will no longer have any data on them.
In certain circumstances, you have the right:
- To access and receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- To rectify any personal data held about you that is inaccurate
- To request the deletion of personal data held about you
You have the right to data portability for the information you provide to Jerry’s Guitar Bar. You can request it in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before complying with such requests.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to provide a service on our behalf, or to assist us in analysing how our service is used.
These third parties have access only to the personal data needed to perform their function, and may only use it to the extent of performing that function. An example is our newsletter which is distributed by a third party. They receive your email address and nothing more, and may only use it for the purpose of sending the Jerry’s Guitar Bar newsletter.
Newsletter
The third party that distributes our newsletter is SendInBlue. You can review their Privacy Policy here: Sendinblue Privay Policy
Analytics
We use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our service.
Google analytics is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
We have requested that Google retain Analytics data related to our site visitors for 14 months from the date of the activity. This is the shortest period of time Google allows.
You can opt out of being visible to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on prevents the Google Analytics Javascript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity.
For more information about the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: Google Privacy Policy
Payments
We provide paid products on Jerry’s Guitar Bar. We use third-party services for payment processing.
We do not store customer credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties. When you use a payment card, that information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The payment processors we work with exclusively are Paypal and Stripe.
Paypal’s Privacy Policy can be viewed at Paypal Privacy Policy
Stripe’s Privacy Policy can be viewed at Stripe Privacy Policy
Links To Other Sites
Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party websites or their services.
Children’s Privacy
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have unwittingly collected personal data from children without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that data from our servers.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. The “effective date” will be changed to reflect the date of the change.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes are effective from the time they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at: [email protected]
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